We flew down there the end of April and back the first part of May. We booked SouthWest but flew AirTran as SW bought AitTran as I understood it. As I understand it the full transition will take place later this year.

When I booked, the only direct flights through November were out of Baltimore, Chicago Atlanta, and I think it was Austin. Any other cities had to connect through one of these. They are just getting started so sure to be better as time goes on. We couldn't get there from KC before 3:30 something in the afternoon so with a little research booked to Orlando on SW the night before for only 7000 points and got a JetBlue flight to Cancun for 150.00 that arrives at 8:30am. Return flight all SW through Atlanta had good times and 17000 points. Hoping by January they have a nonstop out of KC to compete with Frontier with early arrival times.

May be coincidence but every time we have got to the hotel before noon, we have always got one of the rooms we requested and never got the boot.

If you don't know how to have a good time, we'll show you how to have a good time! 12th trip 11/22/17-11/28/17! 13th trip Jan 27/18-Feb 3rd.

I just did a quick comparison between USAir and SW for September from Buffalo to Cancun. USAir was $80 more per person. For me I'll spend the $80 to avoid SW's cattle call. I know I can spend the $25 per person to avoid the cattle call, but then SW is more expensive than USAir. Also with USAir you had several flight options for times in both directions. SW only had one flight option in each direction.

I just did a quick comparison between USAir and SW for September from Buffalo to Cancun. USAir was $80 more per person. For me I'll spend the $80 to avoid SW's cattle call. I know I can spend the $25 per person to avoid the cattle call, but then SW is more expensive than USAir. Also with USAir you had several flight options for times in both directions. SW only had one flight option in each direction.

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1. We don't mind the cattle call. They're not going to take off until everyone is on the plane. 2. The last time we flew to Cancun, SW was not even an option, so we flew Spirit. It was cheaper UNTIL they added the fees. $10 to print a boarding pass. $20 per carry on bag. etc. We ended up spending $200+ on fees, over and above the tickets. 3. We're looking forward to trying the SW experience to Cancun next time.

Problem with us and SW is they do not fly out of Memphis with their package tours... we used US airways from Memphis to Charlotte to Cancun ...with flight and hotel package.
We used to fly Northwest from Memphis to Cancun direct years ago plus used their hotel & flight packages... that was the good old days..but delta screwed that up for Memphis travelers...